Inflation Quote by Ludwig von Mises Download Open image “Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.” — Ludwig von Mises ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inflation
Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it and every government practices it. — Frederick Leith-Ross Copy Share Image
If one regards inflation as an evil, then one has to stop inflating. One has to balance the budget of the government. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Inflation is not a benign element in the economy's operation. It is, as it has always been, the most dangerous and destructive form of… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. It is made by or stopped by the central bank. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Inflation is not an abstract idea thrown around by finance gurus. Inflation is a very real threat to the pocketbooks of hardworking Americans throughout… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure. — John J. Beckley Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“How little one is justified in speaking in this connection of "optimism" and "pessimism" and how much the characterization of liberalism as "optimistic" aims… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There is no kind of freedom and liberty other than the kind which the market economy brings about. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
What counts alone is the innovator, the dissenter, the harbinger of things unheard of, the man who rejects the traditional standards and aims at… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
All this talk: the state should do this or that, ultimately means: the police should force consumers to behave otherwise than they would behave… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly. — Bill Gross Copy Share Image
People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened. — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation… — Martin Feldstein Copy Share Image
Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Inflation is like toothpaste. Once it's out, you can hardly get it back in again. — Karl Otto Pohl Copy Share Image
Soundbite and slogan, strapline and headline, at every turn we meet hyperbole. The soaring inflation of the English language is more urgently in need… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too… — Gary Shilling Copy Share Image
It's good news that he is proposing to restore budget cuts that he made, but the reality is that he is still proposing a… — James Rosapepe Copy Share Image
By the time I became chairman and there was more of a feeling of urgency, there was a willingness to accept more forceful measures… — Paul A. Volcker Copy Share Image
There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
